Today I received my Harvest House Exchange from Simone. Simone stitched me a trinket box using the autumn house from There's No Place Like Home by The Drawn Thread.. and sent me a sweet Marjolein Bastin kit and a memo pad too. Thank you Simone!
Here you can see the inside of the box... it came filled with lovely Anchor threads and a skein of DMC Color Variations too! I love it all Simone - thank you!!!Goal Review Time :-) Let's see...
September Goals:
1. Continue to work on Houses of Hawk Run Hollow -yes
2. Continue to work on Victoria's Quaker -yes
3. Continue to work on Dawn, Fairy Spirit of Grace -yes
4. Continue to work on And A Forest Grew -yes
5. Continue to work on Spring Ride -yes
6. Finish Cathy's Neighborhood RR (Group 3) and send it to An by 9/15 -yes, and An has it now
7. Finish Sabine's Neighborhood RR (Group 1) and send it to Nikki by 10/1 -yes, I sent it on Saturday
8. Stitch some gifts, including at least one PIF - I stitched three gifts, but no PIFS (sigh)
9. Stitch return exchange for Susan (crazy exchange) -yes, I sent it on 9/24 but Susan is travelling and will not be home to receive it for a while - and I initiated an exchange with Cynthia
10. Stitch and send off Harvest House Exchange by 9/15 -yes, and Cari has received it
11. Stitch and send off Grateful Hearts Exchange by 9/24 - yes, and Julianne has received it
12. Stitch and send off Fair and Square to Wendy by 9/7 -yes, and Wendy has received them
October Goals:
1. Continue to work on Houses of Hawk Run Hollow
2. Continue to work on Victoria's Quaker
3. Continue to work on Dawn, Fairy Spirit of Grace
4. Continue to work on And A Forest Grew
5. Continue to work on Spring Ride
6. Work on Erin's Neighborhood Round Robin
7. Stitch some gifts, including some PIFS (especially Jenna's and Heather's, as those are the oldest ones waiting still)
8. Finish USEBB Autumn Quaker Exchange and mail by 10/5 - already mailed it on Saturday and Goldie received it today
9. Finish SBEBB Halloween Exchange and mail by 10/10 - already mailed it today
10. Finish USEBB Halloween Exchange and mail by 10/10
11. Stitch Harvest Time Exchange and mail by 11/1
12. Stitch Fair and Square squares for An, and mail by 11/2 (her birthday)
13. Start Autumn Seasonal Exchange for Myrna
14. Initiate a Crazy Exchange for...???...:-)
And... an update of Houses of Hawk Run Hollow. Finished the roof, started the wall and worked on the tree trunk... :-)
A must see - check out Jonathan Papelbon, the Red Sox closer, partying and dancing in his black spandex biker shorts after the Red Sox won the AL East on Friday night... Kevin Youkilis, first baseman, has a bit of a running (??) dance of his own. What a hoot! Check out Papelbon's face!!
Stitched on today: Stitched on USEBB Halloween Exchange project, and Houses of Hawk Run Hollow **Mailed out SBEBB Halloween Exchange today
21 comments:
Such an lovely exchange! I think you did pretty darn good with your goals last month!
Great looking exchange. You are so ambitious with your goals for the month. You did a good job of meeting them last month.
Go Red Sox!!!!!!!!!!
What a gorgeous box from Simone! Wow. It makes me want to grab my coat and head for the forest for a long hike :o)
Your list of goals makes me so nervous, Carol. I'm glad it's not mine!
Wow, that box by Simone is gorgeous!! Isn't that a great exchange!
HoHRH is progressing very well, Carol :) Kudos!
Good luck with your October goals Carol:)
What a lovely exchange from Simone.
What a lovely exchange - I especially love the Marjolein Bastin chart. Very cute!
Good luck with meeting your goals for the month!
Your exchange from Simone is stunning :) Lucky you girlfriend!
And your goals...well I cannot compete against such a virtuous stitcher....my goal is: to make it through the day :) LOL!
Have a good day!
AS always you do so well on your goals :) HOHRH is looking good!
Great exchange from Simone!
Have a great day :)
That's a great trinket box you received from Simone, Carol. What yummy autumn colors! And your progress on HOHRH is wonderful!
Wonderful exchange!!!
Great job on your goals and HOHRH looks super! What a great exchange! Enjoy!
Carol-what a great exchange! You have some of the nicest, craftiest, generous partners! Your progress on HOHRH is moving right along.
Wow what lovely exchange from Simone. The trinket box is beautiful.
Your list of goals is amazing! =)
What a beautiful exchange, Simone did great job with this! All you WIPs look very pretty as always, these Round Robins look wonderful, I just love houses :)
That Red Sox clip is pretty funny! But hey, look out--the Colorado Rockies have advanced, don't count us out yet...
Beautiful exchange from Simone. And WOW, I can't believe how much you get done!!!
Wow, what a nice exchange! You have a ton of goals - I hope you can meet them all this month!
Beautiful exchange. Lucky you. Glad your Sox won. I'm more of football fan. I saw Johnny Bench in his hometown one day! HeHe. (I know he wasn't a Sox.)
Such a wonderful exchange! The box is beautiful!! And HoHRH is looking great!
That trinket box is really lovely. I love the material on the inside as well.
HOHRH is progressing well. I really enjoy watching this one!
Beautiful exchange!
You did fantastic on your goals for September!
Beatuiful box!!!
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